It is hereby ordered that the order insofar as appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously reversed on the law without costs and the motion is granted.
Memorandum: Plaintiffs commenced this action seeking damages for injuries sustained by William M. Williams, Jr. (plaintiff) when he fell from the roof of a building owned by defendant City of Niagara Falls. We conclude that Supreme Court erred in denying plaintiffs' motion for partial summary judgment on liability on the Labor Law § 240 (1) claim. Plaintiffs established their entitlement to judgment as a matter of law with respect to Labor Law § 240 (1) by establishing that plaintiff was not furnished with the requisite safety devices and that the absence of appropriate safety devices was a proximate cause of his injuries ( see Howe v Syracuse Univ., 306 AD2d 891), and defendants thus failed to raise an issue of fact whether the actions of plaintiff were the sole proximate cause of his injuries ( see Whiting v Dave Hennig, Inc., 28 AD3d 1105, 1106). Contrary to defendants' further contention, the presence of a safety harness in plaintiffs truck and "[t]he mere presence of [other safety devices] somewhere at the worksite" does not satisfy defendants' duty to provide appropriate safety devices ( Zimmer v Chemung County Performing Arts, 65 NY2d 513, 524, rearg denied 65 NY2d 1054).